LA has more laws to fuck you over than New York and that is saying something. My friend's dad owned a company that made fishing lures in LA and ran into all sorts of corruption, incompetence and insanity trying to get the permits needed to expand his factory. So he moved the entire operation to Texas.
I can't remember a time in the past 9 years I did not have a proxy blocking a list of ad servers. I immediately close any website that has anything moving on a page as well. That sex toys in the shape of dead president's wives genitalia.
Yeah, but the question is what percentage will survive such a calamity? The average American has a week or two's worth of non-perishable goods and I have been to Japan and Europe and the folk I met there had even less sizable pantries. Me, well every time I see a crazy deal for something that will keep for a long period of time like rice, pasta, canned beans or vegetables I buy a bunch of it. This xmas I bought 24 tins of refried beans for 10 dollars, 30 cans of real Spam for under 40 dollars and 4 20lb bags of brown rice for 60 dollars. Once it is past the expiration date I buy more than donate the slightly expired food to a food bank. For about 300 dollars a year and bargain hunting I have built up about 6 months worth of food for myself. I plan on getting a 50 gallon drum for water soon and this will all fit in a medium sized apartment easy. Oh and chicks dig a man who has a larder, especially in colder climates I think it might be hard wired into their brains.
Yeah, and the Wright Brothers plane and 20-30 years of tinkering it took to build a reliable plane never happened because the first 5-10 years the planes could barely stay aloft and they learned nothing from their failures and sub-stratospheric flight. You might point out we already know how to build a rocket that can go orbital, even to the moon and beyond. Well I will tell you that none of that knowledge exists in any complete form outside of JPL, ESA, NASA, JSA and now the Chinese space agency. Building a rocket engine is non-trivial, let alone the rest of the systems and until the government starts open sourcing that knowledge the private industry is going to have to learn that on their own.
I agree, my mother just got something like that in her retirement house and it is easy enough for her to maintain. These 500-800 dollar setups for backup power are nice when needed and better than nothing but if you are without power for up to a week invest in a more robust solution.
Agreed, and the ability to even use that emulation with X11 on anything besides Windows Vista with Cygwin is an unknown. With stupid reviews talking more about functions maybe 1% of the user base ever will use more than just basic 3-button and a scroll wheel functionality I wonder how much of these poor design decisions are due to a self-feedback loop of more features is better = higher reviews. The Wireless Laser Mouse Series from Microsoft for instance has a horrible time at clicking the middle mouse button so to open new tabs and close old tabs you have to map it to one of the side buttons which you will hit by mistake. It was so useless as an actual interface to the computer I just took out the laser diode assembly and played with it and plugged in my old LX3 from Logitech.
I just use an ebook reader to read the most current stories on about 100 different rss feeds I have. A little htmltopdf and I got more news than I have ever been able to read in a 2 hour daily commute. What is this news "paper" you speak of?
I have that game and it is not as much GPU limited as the code is not parallelized very well, from what I gather like most games of that era they used an Automatic Parralelization compiler. Now that kids are graduating from college with 3-4 years of smp programming under their belts and not decades of serial algorithm design we will see better use of the multi core setups. I would not be surprised to see people keeping quad core and even dual core systems for a few extra years as software performance catches up. Even with 2 8800's with my old dual core it would crawl along at ~10 fps in large battles and now that I have a quad core it may do a few more fps.
This article addresses more high-end gaming systems in SLI mode. Are there any RTS games out there that really tax a single NV 8800 GT even? I have a 7600 x3 setup from about 3 years ago that I hardly ever use anymore because a 2x 8800 GT OC is almost 2x as fast and was about 300 dollars cheaper, well 2.5 years later. I only get SLI with a single video card and usually upgrade at the first sign of low fps in a game I am playing, so it saves me money in the long run not having to buy a whole new setup. I have one more PCIe16 slot waiting for 8800's to get under 100 bucks. I am half tempted to get this deal though as I could upgrade my media server in the living room with the memory, hmmmm.
Amps are not volts. A radio signal from a cell phone has a voltage component that is why people are talking about wireless power; however to the point, a 3-4 mA radio transceiver in a cell phone operating at nearly 1 GHz is going to travel a lot farther than 3-4 mA operating at less than 800mhz on any kind of wiring or on any kind of PCB.
There is many an order of magnitude more atoms in the tracing on the PCB than comprise the air the radio waves travel through from the antenna on the cell phone to the cell tower. There are even less when we are talking a matter of mm. The more atoms you have to push your information through the more amperage it takes to overcome the resistance and since radio waves are a form of EM radiation they follow similar laws which just appear more complicated.
It is rare for these agreements to even approach 3 cents a minute nowadays, phone cards are proof of that because they usually average about 1-2 cents profit per minute because the competition is brutal. The phone companies are charging sometimes 50 times the amount they pay. So did you get that, MTS is charging 1.33 Canadian and you can get phone cards for around 4 cents a minute US. So around 40,000 minutes of calls which would cost around 1500 bucks US they are trying to get him to pay around 45,000 US or about 30 times cost. Are people really that stupid to still be sticking with a land line when they won't even spit on your asshole before raping you?
I have friends in Georgia, Russia and the Ukraine and I just use a cheap skype router and talk to them that way, it works better than the phone system. 90% of the people under the age of 35 in those countries do the same. So my question would be who were the calls to, who was making them and why can't they charge one of them?
Taking an old 300 watt atx power supply apart to make a variable 0-5v and 0-12v bench power supply for electronics projects will teach you what you will need to know about quality of components if you have a decent DMM, or better a USB scope to see the difference when you switch out caps and other components. An often overlooked problem with cheap power supplies is that bad soldering and cheap PCBs cause the capacitors to work harder to move the same amount of charge. This effects voltage as it relates to capacitance's formula C = Q/V and its integral (dammit give me MathML) sigh read Wikipedia's definition.
Doesn't matter how good your caps are if the circuit was soldered by someone being paid slave wages working 14 hour shifts. The real cost of the plenitude of cheap electronics is going to be an interesting story. Besides the obvious horrors of the places of manufacture in Asia and the dumping grounds in Africa where similar autoimmune disorders, cancers and genetic abnormalities are rampant is the story of what happens between those two places. It is not just the disposable aspect that technology plays in our culture that fascinates me but how little knowledge of the design and manufacture of technology is present in the people that purchase it, sell it or even repair it. PC techs without any electronics understanding are the worse, "Who needs an anti-static work area when I can use any flat surface including a pizza box?" and than wonder why they have half a dozen motherboards laying around the house that won't work./rant
If I have the time before Xmas I will post my pics and schematics on my blog. Did it for an EE project. Working on LCDs and circuitry to display voltage and amperage (currently have 4 lobotomized dmm pcb w/ attached backlit lcd doing a reading each.
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Doesn't mean you can't work on your upper body. Gaining a pound of muscle in a year will usually shed about 2-3 lbs of fat if you do light aerobic exercise, stretching as well as the weights. I have a 10 and 20 lb dumb bell at my desk and I often do tricep extensions and bicep curls. After about 6 months I could do a 20 lb weight and I have stuck with that for the last 3 years. If you plan on losing weight find a lotion you like and order it in bulk you will thank yourself to save you from the 'losing weight' stretchmarks.
200 dollars an hour designing or developing Yet Another iPhone application in this economy? Lol, you are shitting me right? Whoever is smoking the weed and handing out the VC money needs to be fired and you need to move shop to a reasonable place where glorified programmers aren't considered kings. The problem is this bloated development model that puts these sort of idiots in charge in the first place will never produce anything remotely close to the crap Google gives away for free. The model is bad and it won't matter how much money you have to throw at it.
Do I have any rights to sell games I buy as an online DRM service? They represent only about 10% of my games but I wonder what to do with them when I am done it would be nice to at least "regift" them to someone on my friend's list.
Do you realize, that until they begin solving these problems in academia that there will be no industry-ready solution? I mean this is a whole new advent of computing really with three-dimensional processors coming online at around the same time we may see the same sort of increase in computational power that they did with the first electric computers.
This are some workable challenges that lay ahead in the next few years.
1. Not only will a lot of algorithm design need to be hacked out but I think Quantum Computing needs its own language to really shine and that can be worked on now.
2. A lot of work can be made possible with a clever and cheap single or dual qubit hardware solution that is yet to be designed. Please make the connection USB. The boys and girls down in applied physics may be able to help you. Like Morlocks they usually are underground and desire a eloi/hippy for snackerfice.
3. The ability to run an exponentially greater amount of calculations is going to lead to revolutionary engineering breakthroughs across the board. Lattice work in concrete is particularly linear, curvilinear or hodge-podge; now imagine lattice inside a concrete pylon like a fractal tree, it could be made to withstand force vectors that would turn a standard pylon to dust, sure we have the computing power to do a pylon like that now but not all the components of a 1000 story building.
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LA has more laws to fuck you over than New York and that is saying something. My friend's dad owned a company that made fishing lures in LA and ran into all sorts of corruption, incompetence and insanity trying to get the permits needed to expand his factory. So he moved the entire operation to Texas.
American Indian reservations.
Mine are ducktaped side by side on the back of an old notebook in my backpack. I peel off the duck tape and tada.
Well than most likely the real solution would be a combination of these technologies to address and overcome technological and political issues.
I can't remember a time in the past 9 years I did not have a proxy blocking a list of ad servers. I immediately close any website that has anything moving on a page as well. That sex toys in the shape of dead president's wives genitalia.
Yeah, but the question is what percentage will survive such a calamity? The average American has a week or two's worth of non-perishable goods and I have been to Japan and Europe and the folk I met there had even less sizable pantries. Me, well every time I see a crazy deal for something that will keep for a long period of time like rice, pasta, canned beans or vegetables I buy a bunch of it. This xmas I bought 24 tins of refried beans for 10 dollars, 30 cans of real Spam for under 40 dollars and 4 20lb bags of brown rice for 60 dollars. Once it is past the expiration date I buy more than donate the slightly expired food to a food bank. For about 300 dollars a year and bargain hunting I have built up about 6 months worth of food for myself. I plan on getting a 50 gallon drum for water soon and this will all fit in a medium sized apartment easy. Oh and chicks dig a man who has a larder, especially in colder climates I think it might be hard wired into their brains.
Yeah, and the Wright Brothers plane and 20-30 years of tinkering it took to build a reliable plane never happened because the first 5-10 years the planes could barely stay aloft and they learned nothing from their failures and sub-stratospheric flight. You might point out we already know how to build a rocket that can go orbital, even to the moon and beyond. Well I will tell you that none of that knowledge exists in any complete form outside of JPL, ESA, NASA, JSA and now the Chinese space agency. Building a rocket engine is non-trivial, let alone the rest of the systems and until the government starts open sourcing that knowledge the private industry is going to have to learn that on their own.
I agree, my mother just got something like that in her retirement house and it is easy enough for her to maintain. These 500-800 dollar setups for backup power are nice when needed and better than nothing but if you are without power for up to a week invest in a more robust solution.
Agreed, and the ability to even use that emulation with X11 on anything besides Windows Vista with Cygwin is an unknown. With stupid reviews talking more about functions maybe 1% of the user base ever will use more than just basic 3-button and a scroll wheel functionality I wonder how much of these poor design decisions are due to a self-feedback loop of more features is better = higher reviews. The Wireless Laser Mouse Series from Microsoft for instance has a horrible time at clicking the middle mouse button so to open new tabs and close old tabs you have to map it to one of the side buttons which you will hit by mistake. It was so useless as an actual interface to the computer I just took out the laser diode assembly and played with it and plugged in my old LX3 from Logitech.
I prefer IBM's new Lotus Symphony, I mean it has tabs and it is based on openoffice.
I just use an ebook reader to read the most current stories on about 100 different rss feeds I have. A little htmltopdf and I got more news than I have ever been able to read in a 2 hour daily commute. What is this news "paper" you speak of?
I play Flight Sim X at 1680x1050 with moderate AA and AF and I have not gone below 25 fps. What ungodly setup do you have 2 or 3 monitors? chris
I have that game and it is not as much GPU limited as the code is not parallelized very well, from what I gather like most games of that era they used an Automatic Parralelization compiler. Now that kids are graduating from college with 3-4 years of smp programming under their belts and not decades of serial algorithm design we will see better use of the multi core setups. I would not be surprised to see people keeping quad core and even dual core systems for a few extra years as software performance catches up. Even with 2 8800's with my old dual core it would crawl along at ~10 fps in large battles and now that I have a quad core it may do a few more fps.
This article addresses more high-end gaming systems in SLI mode. Are there any RTS games out there that really tax a single NV 8800 GT even? I have a 7600 x3 setup from about 3 years ago that I hardly ever use anymore because a 2x 8800 GT OC is almost 2x as fast and was about 300 dollars cheaper, well 2.5 years later. I only get SLI with a single video card and usually upgrade at the first sign of low fps in a game I am playing, so it saves me money in the long run not having to buy a whole new setup. I have one more PCIe16 slot waiting for 8800's to get under 100 bucks. I am half tempted to get this deal though as I could upgrade my media server in the living room with the memory, hmmmm.
Yawn, troll.
Amps are not volts. A radio signal from a cell phone has a voltage component that is why people are talking about wireless power; however to the point, a 3-4 mA radio transceiver in a cell phone operating at nearly 1 GHz is going to travel a lot farther than 3-4 mA operating at less than 800mhz on any kind of wiring or on any kind of PCB.
There is many an order of magnitude more atoms in the tracing on the PCB than comprise the air the radio waves travel through from the antenna on the cell phone to the cell tower. There are even less when we are talking a matter of mm. The more atoms you have to push your information through the more amperage it takes to overcome the resistance and since radio waves are a form of EM radiation they follow similar laws which just appear more complicated.
It is rare for these agreements to even approach 3 cents a minute nowadays, phone cards are proof of that because they usually average about 1-2 cents profit per minute because the competition is brutal. The phone companies are charging sometimes 50 times the amount they pay. So did you get that, MTS is charging 1.33 Canadian and you can get phone cards for around 4 cents a minute US. So around 40,000 minutes of calls which would cost around 1500 bucks US they are trying to get him to pay around 45,000 US or about 30 times cost. Are people really that stupid to still be sticking with a land line when they won't even spit on your asshole before raping you?
I have friends in Georgia, Russia and the Ukraine and I just use a cheap skype router and talk to them that way, it works better than the phone system. 90% of the people under the age of 35 in those countries do the same. So my question would be who were the calls to, who was making them and why can't they charge one of them?
Taking an old 300 watt atx power supply apart to make a variable 0-5v and 0-12v bench power supply for electronics projects will teach you what you will need to know about quality of components if you have a decent DMM, or better a USB scope to see the difference when you switch out caps and other components. An often overlooked problem with cheap power supplies is that bad soldering and cheap PCBs cause the capacitors to work harder to move the same amount of charge. This effects voltage as it relates to capacitance's formula C = Q/V and its integral (dammit give me MathML) sigh read Wikipedia's definition. Doesn't matter how good your caps are if the circuit was soldered by someone being paid slave wages working 14 hour shifts. The real cost of the plenitude of cheap electronics is going to be an interesting story. Besides the obvious horrors of the places of manufacture in Asia and the dumping grounds in Africa where similar autoimmune disorders, cancers and genetic abnormalities are rampant is the story of what happens between those two places. It is not just the disposable aspect that technology plays in our culture that fascinates me but how little knowledge of the design and manufacture of technology is present in the people that purchase it, sell it or even repair it. PC techs without any electronics understanding are the worse, "Who needs an anti-static work area when I can use any flat surface including a pizza box?" and than wonder why they have half a dozen motherboards laying around the house that won't work. /rant
If I have the time before Xmas I will post my pics and schematics on my blog. Did it for an EE project. Working on LCDs and circuitry to display voltage and amperage (currently have 4 lobotomized dmm pcb w/ attached backlit lcd doing a reading each.
Doesn't mean you can't work on your upper body. Gaining a pound of muscle in a year will usually shed about 2-3 lbs of fat if you do light aerobic exercise, stretching as well as the weights. I have a 10 and 20 lb dumb bell at my desk and I often do tricep extensions and bicep curls. After about 6 months I could do a 20 lb weight and I have stuck with that for the last 3 years. If you plan on losing weight find a lotion you like and order it in bulk you will thank yourself to save you from the 'losing weight' stretchmarks.
This is what happens when too many people have their hands up the engineers and by extension the technicians' asses.
200 dollars an hour designing or developing Yet Another iPhone application in this economy? Lol, you are shitting me right? Whoever is smoking the weed and handing out the VC money needs to be fired and you need to move shop to a reasonable place where glorified programmers aren't considered kings. The problem is this bloated development model that puts these sort of idiots in charge in the first place will never produce anything remotely close to the crap Google gives away for free. The model is bad and it won't matter how much money you have to throw at it.
Not if you sell them to black market organ dealers.
Do I have any rights to sell games I buy as an online DRM service? They represent only about 10% of my games but I wonder what to do with them when I am done it would be nice to at least "regift" them to someone on my friend's list.
Do you realize, that until they begin solving these problems in academia that there will be no industry-ready solution? I mean this is a whole new advent of computing really with three-dimensional processors coming online at around the same time we may see the same sort of increase in computational power that they did with the first electric computers.
This are some workable challenges that lay ahead in the next few years.
1. Not only will a lot of algorithm design need to be hacked out but I think Quantum Computing needs its own language to really shine and that can be worked on now.
2. A lot of work can be made possible with a clever and cheap single or dual qubit hardware solution that is yet to be designed. Please make the connection USB. The boys and girls down in applied physics may be able to help you. Like Morlocks they usually are underground and desire a eloi/hippy for snackerfice.
3. The ability to run an exponentially greater amount of calculations is going to lead to revolutionary engineering breakthroughs across the board. Lattice work in concrete is particularly linear, curvilinear or hodge-podge; now imagine lattice inside a concrete pylon like a fractal tree, it could be made to withstand force vectors that would turn a standard pylon to dust, sure we have the computing power to do a pylon like that now but not all the components of a 1000 story building.